History
Inquiring Minds
COLA student research is featured in UNH’s Inquiry Journal. Read MoreAlso in UNH Today...
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05/11/22Blue Ribbon Day
COLA students are among a select group recognized for excellence in scholarship, leadership, citizenship and more. -
04/19/22The Gary Lindberg Award
Lucy Salyer, professor of history, has been named the 2022 Lindberg Award winner in COLA. -
03/14/22People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over
UNH's Molly Dorsey is one of two historians featured in this Scientific American article. -
03/07/22A Shared History
Before graduating last September from UNH’s museum studies program, Amy Denham worked with Kimberly Alexander, director of museum studies with the...
Recent Stories
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04/29/16 - New UNH Documentary Tells the Story of Black History in New HampshireHow does New Hampshire, a state with the motto “Live Free or Die,” confront and understand its participation in slavery, segregation, and the neglect of African-American history?... Read More -
04/27/16 - Lepler in The Washington Post on Andrew Jackson and the "Bank War"In the wake of news that the image of Andrew Jackson will move to the back of the $20 bill, with Harriet Tubman soon to grace the front, UNH historian Jess Lepler was interviewed... Read More
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04/12/16 - Humanities in the Digital Age: Collaboration is at the heart of a range of projects that explore the digital humanities landscapeWhen Scott Weintraub thinks about digital humanities, he thinks of conversations — and, sometimes, trees. The assistant professor of Spanish is working on a book titled “Latin... Read More
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03/15/16 - COLA Students Win Critical Language Scholarships from State DepartmentCrystal Napoli '18, an honors history and justice studies major, and Eden Suoth '18, an honors mechanical engineering and philosophy major, won Critical Language Scholarships (CLS... Read More -
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03/10/16 - COLA Faculty Honored with University Awards and ProfessorshipsFaculty members in the College of Liberal Arts have been selected for a number of prestigious university awards. Faculty university-wide awards for 2016 have gone to Gregory... Read More -
12/20/15 - Changing MindsFalling for Ibsen When Isabelle Beagen '18 read “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen in her freshman theatre history course, she fell in love. “Ibsen is a writer in which every prop... Read More -
11/12/15 - Women of Bone and Steel: Stays on Display at University MuseumPreserved corsets from the 18th through 20th centuries are lining the walls of the University Museum on the ground floor of Dimond Library, chronicling more than 200 years of... Read More -
07/10/15 - Remembering SelmaAs we gathered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, amid the thousands of other people from all over, many of them original marchers, I noticed something: the silence. I had never been... Read More -
07/10/15 - In Memoriam—Carleton Wentworth '37Carleton Wentworth loved being outdoors, tending his expansive vegetable and flower gardens and picture-perfect lawn. His love of nature began in his childhood during summer... Read More